It’s never a good feeling not to have the level of confidence you want to have. If you need more confidence, you’ll be glad to know that there are definite ways you can develop it. If you want more confidence in business and life in general, simply adhere to the following three tactics we’ll be covering.

Figure out what forces affect your catering business as a whole as well as individual parts of organizational structure. There are very many aspects of business that will impact your ability to have confidence. Increased confidence is only one side effect of good business skills. Your business does not exist within a vacuum nor do its parts, you need to realize this. It’s also true of the rest of the business as a whole. Your catering business is influenced by many influences as a whole as well as separately. If you find yourself lacking in confidence with your role or function within your catering business, then you know that is something that must be addressed. Giving yourself pep talks has not been very effective. There’s the matter of your unconscious feelings and attitudes that override the words you consciously repeat. The best alternative or solution is to use the imagination you have tucked away wisely. Whatever you want to call it, play mental games with yourself to envision what you need to be like in order to effectively do your job. It is more than crucial for you to see yourself having already succeeded striving for the confidence you want.

You need to tackle confidence building on as many fronts as possible. It may be hard to fathom, but your outward show really is significant – not just to you but also other individuals around you. This is a crucial thing for you to become aware of. So to put it simply, be sure that you look the part that you desire to be. Think about this, if individuals take note of you and can’t make out a business leader, or a person in a catering business leadership role, then they’ll have a tendency to act consequently. When you look and actively “be” the part, then you will see a difference in the way people respond to you. At that point, you will start to feel more convinced of yourself about who and what you are. These feelings of inadequacy are completely understandable. It is possible to accomplish the confidence you need in a variety of ways. Most catering business owners make changes slowly in areas of confidence. Your dedication and perseverance are key to this process and the time it takes to make it work.

While Chris Bridges’ aka Ludacris is doing an incredible job for the Atlanta community at large, as a leader he is smart enough to know to build a strong backbone of true business leaders around him to continue to grow his enterprises. For the Ludacris Foundation, community service means providing monetary support and donating time in our communities at large. Since 2001, The Ludacris Foundation has donated $500,000 to support grassroots organizations that work to help our youth, as well as invested more than 3,500 hours in devoted service to young people across the nation. The programs in support of the Foundation have impacted 7000 lives. The Ludacris Foundation takes pride in “helping youth help themselves.”

A few years ago, Ludacris got a team together to grow additional passive income and not just be a rapper running out of money when the rap career is done and over with. He had to think outside the box and come up with a strategic plan to do so. He went into his think tank of executive partners and developed a team to help build additional brands based upon the name “Luda” that he is known by in the hip hop music industry. Albert G. Sye IV, a Morehouse graduate, is the business behind Ludacris’ health drink, Ludajuice. Mr. Sye also works with the Ludacris Foundation that just gave away 20 cars to Atlanta area residents Labor Day weekend 2009.

When Ludacris needed an experienced team to launch Ludajuice as an affiliate marketing strategy, he knew to contact Albert Sye due to his reputation of his growing Atlanta based company The AGS Group. Mr. Sye received his B.A. in English in 2000 from Morehouse College and is a true “Morehouse Man” in all senses of these words in which they are used by Morehouse alumni.

While at Morehouse, Mr. Sye was involved in numerous activities that chiseled his leadership skills: Morehouse football, member and President of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, as well as being a McNair scholar from Marquette University. In 2005, Mr. Sye was a key team member and responsible for helping to build Atlanta producer Lil Jon Crunk! energy drink to a top 20 AC Neilson brand. He handled the sales and merchandising for their number one market: Georgia and the southeast.

Mr. Sye’s background in beverages propelled him to a managing partner role in Ludacris’ Ludajuice team which is a business venture between Ludacris and XanGo formed in 2008. He also serves as a managing partner of The AGS Group. Albert’s clients include Ludacris, Cytosport/Musclemilk, and The Ludacris Foundation. Mr. Sye is also a founding partner of Make Believe Village, an entertainment production company based in Atlanta and Los Angeles, California.

If you do the 100 day challenge the next 100 days can alter your life and let the entrepreneur success in you happen. Online business is not only one of the best opportunities available these days but also one of the easiest to start. You can commence your online business with extremely little start-up costs and you do not have the costs associated with business premises. That means less risk.

To achieve success you need to change what you do, and by making small changes on a daily basis you will very soon start to see major differences. It has been said that it takes about one month to change a habit and to make the new habit a permanent one. By doing the 100 day challenge your mission is to create change in your life and change with your mind-set by incorporating new actions and thoughts.

With your online business you set your goals then break it down to a monthly activity plan, and next a weekly one followed by a daily one. Each day do a little for your business, it maybe a new article, a new video promotion, or some activity on one of your other marketing campaigns.

The more you can do the more you will achieve. But by focusing on your daily activities for the next 100 days you build new habits and a new mind-set along with building your entrepreneur success.

Anything you believe on a daily basis becomes your reality. Success is a habit and all you only need to form new habits and thinking patterns. If you are seeking entrepreneur success you must change what you do and what goes on in your mind so you get the new results in your life.

By allocating a few hours in making your plans and committing yourself to daily action over the 100 days you will draw success towards you.

Every evening compile a short list of tomorrows activities, it not only is as a reminder but helps to keep your momentum going.

By working on your mind-set and your business you acquire the skills vital for entrepreneur success. All success starts in your mind. Develop positive thoughts and then push away the negative ones.

Take the 100 day challenge and it will change you and your life. By moving towards your goals in small steps they will begin to get larger.

I define bootstrapping as “pursuing success with limited resources and with the help of others.” By limited resources I mean a shortage of money or knowledge. Here are some tips and ideas to help solve these shortfalls for small and wannabe entrepreneurial business owners. These ideas are particularly apropos in today’s environment.

Barter

Barter, one of the world’s oldest forms of commerce, is thriving today because it allows companies to trade their products or services for other needed products or services with little or no cash involved. You can utilize your excess goods, manufacturing capacity or time to obtain needed things of every imaginable variety. Bartering can also help you reach and acquire new customers through satisfied trading partners that, if pleased, will buy again with cash and provide good word of mouth to others.

Most barter today is done through exchanges that match up the traders for a fee. You can learn more about the details and find a barter exchange near you by doing a simple online search or visiting the International Reciprocal Trade Association.

Free Consulting

SCORE is a government agency with the mission to provide resources and expertise to maximize the success of existing and emerging small businesses. All SCORE counselors are volunteers, mostly retired executives who want to give back. There is no charge, and everyone who calls gets an appointment. There are more than 370 chapters in the U.S. SCORE does not loan money, but it will advise you on how to get it. Visit the website to find your local office.

The Small Business Development Center is another government agency that basically does the same thing as SCORE but with paid employees and even more educational classes. There are more than 1,000 centers in the U.S. Like SCORE counseling, SBDC counseling is also free.

Mentors

Mentors are experienced, successful businesspeople who are willing to help entrepreneurs get started and grow at no charge. A good one can be the key to success for an emerging company. Mentors can be found in myriad places: family, former teachers, suppliers, the local Chamber of Commerce, people you admire, etc. If you find a good one, be sure always to keep him or her in the loop and say thank you.

Special Offers to Key Customers

It is difficult for small companies to sell to large customers in any environment. An effective way to overcome this challenge is to offer your target an exclusive: your product, a package, a design, a channel of distribution–something special and different from the competition. The exclusive can also be time-sensitive. In return, you can ask for distribution in all of the company’s outlets, free ads, better payment terms or any other goody important to you.

Suppliers

Almost every company needs reliable suppliers. They can contribute to the quality of your business with on-time delivery or innovation and solve some of your financial problems by giving you extended terms. Some suppliers may even be willing to invest in your company. The best suppliers can help make you more competitive and reliable. To gain supplier cooperation, treat suppliers fairly and pay all of their bills on time.

Publicity

Getting coverage about you, your company or your product in print, on TV, on radio or on the web can be more credible than a paid ad. You need not be an expert to get such media coverage. Remember that the writer’s job is to write, and they all need stories. Why not yours? Start by approaching your local media with interesting facts or anecdotes about yourself, your product or service and how you started the company. Writers usually prefer the passion of the company founder to a pitch from a professional publicist.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing can convert the fixed costs of full-time employees to the variable costs incurred only when you need them. This is a major cash-saving strategy that also can yield better quality and know-how as well as access in the case of sales reps. The myth about outsourcing is that you lose control. You may actually have more control because if a vendor doesn’t do a good job, you can just find another. You need not sacrifice control by outsourcing. Another myth is that outsourcing means sending work overseas. This does not have to be true. Anything not done in house is outsourced, whether you get it done down the street, in another state or in another country.

Building Trust

If you are trusted, customers will want to do business with you, employees will be motivated, and lenders and investors are more apt to give you money. You build trust by refusing to compromise on doing the right thing and conducting business ethically. Trust relentlessly pursued can pay great dividends.

Selling

Selling is “persuading someone to take an action favorable to all parties.” There is no selling gene. Selling is an acquired skill best honed with experience. Everyone in the company should be selling with the CEO being the most important seller. There is no cash outlay for selling except for travel. You can do it.